How to clear basic authentication details in chrome

Question

I\'m working on a site that uses basic authentication. Using Chrome I\'ve logged in using the basic auth. I now want to remove the basic authentication details from the brow

Answer 1

May be old thread but thought of adding answer to help others.

I had the same issue with Advanced ReST Client App, I'm not able to clear basic authentication from Chrome neither from app. It simply stopped asking for credentials!

However, I managed to make it work by relaunching Chrome using About Google Chrome -> Relaunch.

Once Chrome is relaunched, when I accessed ReST service, it will ask for user name and password using basic authentication popup.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

You can also do it via the settings page, chrome://chrome/settings

• Under The Hood
• Advanced Settings
• Passwords and Forms

Then click the link Manage saved passwords.

Answer 3

For Windows 10: What worked for me was clearing the credentials in the Windows Credentials in the Credential Manager.

Answer 4

A lot of great suggestions here, I'll give the one that I found the most efficient:

Just change your password in the site. The old authentication will became outdated and Chrome will request it again.

Since I had a terminal open, I did a simple script to change the password and in two keypresses it were incremented.

Answer 5

You can open an incognito window Ctrl+Shift+n each time you are doing a test. The incognito window will not remember the username and password the last time you entered.

To use this trick, make sure to close all incognito windows. All incognito windows share the same cache. In other words, you cannot open multiple independent incognito windows. If you login in one of them and open another one, those two are related and you will see that the new window remembers the authentication information from the first window.

Answer 6

The authentication is cleared when you exit Chrome.

Note however, that by default Chrome is running apps in the background, so it may not really exit even if you close all Chrome windows. You can either change this behavior under advanced setting, or e.g. under Windows, you can completely exit Chrome by using the Chrome icon in the systray. There should be an icon if Chrome is still running, but maybe you'll find it only in the popup with the hidden icons. The context menu of the Chrome icon has an entry to completely exit Chrome, and you can also change the setting for running apps in the background using that menu.

1. Open the Chrome menu
2. Select Settings
3. Scroll to the bottom
4. Click Show advanced settings...
5. Scroll to the bottom
6. Under System uncheck the box labeled:
   Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed